Process of making salve.



J. W. HERALD. PROCESS OF MAKING sALvB. nx uo'nron rum MAR.1'3, 1911.

1,022,239. Patented Apr. 2, i912.

WITNESSES l/VVLNTOR 1 v I a Aiorn g/f WWM I 2/ 0/57) fif75 ral0l JOHN W.HERALD, 0F GALVESTON, TEXAS.

PROCESS OF MAKING SALVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

Application filed March 13, 1911. Serial No. 614,082.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. HERALD, a citizenof the United States, residing at Galveston, in the county of GalvestonandState of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inProcesses of Making Salve, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to medicines, and

the principal object of the same is to prostove 2,

duce a paste for the treatment by exterior application of certaindiseases.

The improved paste is made from an herb known as sheep-sorrel (Occalz'sacetosella), which is thoroughly washed and boiled in pure rain water,then strained, and the boiling operation is repeated until the mass isreduced to a pulp, or paste. The proportions I have found best is twogallons of rain water to four pounds of the leaves and stems of thesheep-sorrel. a copper receptacle, such as is designated by the numeral1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings, and the receptacle seated onthe and the contents of the receptacle allowed to boil until their bulkis reduced to a half gallon. The mass is then strained,

These are placed in I and the boiling operation resumed until the sameis reduced to a paste, the bulk of which is ten ounces.

It is to be noted that during the boiling process the acid of the sorrelenters into combination with a certain portion of the copper.

of the vessel so that the resultant compound contains a certain portionof a chemical compound of oxalic'acid and copper.

The improved paste is intended for external use,'and is applied to thediseased portion in the manner common to the application of salves.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is The process of making a medicinal pastewhich consists in boiling leaves and stems of 0020158 acetosella in rainwater while in a copper receptacle, to reduce their bulk, then strainingthe same, and then repeating the boiling operation to reduce the same toa medicinal paste.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

his JOHN W. HERALD.

mar Vt'itnesses I'IENRY Exonmrntnn, EMAR DAHL.

